I've been listening to a weekly podcast called The History of Rome which I've found to be both educational and entertaining. I'm wanting more detail than is provided in the podcasts so here I am ...

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering pyramids of Egypt? These eight carefully selected books offer something ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of ...

Stories set in ancient worlds beyond Egypt, Greece and Rome offer a rare sense of distance and depth. These historical books ...

The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

In what is certainly not a traditional treatment, the brilliant and witty Prof. Beard (Cambridge), author of The Roman Triumph and many other works, takes us on a thoughtful walk through the story of ...

“Dictator” is the final volume in Robert Harris’ trilogy about the life of Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, whose political theories and prose style remained influential until at least the ...

The lives of the rulers of ancient Rome are still vivid in modern heads. According to a conversation that has gone viral on TikTok, some men say they think about the Roman Empire “every day”. The ...

ROMAN HOLIDAY — Upton Sinclair — Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Upton Sinclair writes in a wide-eyed way that is reminiscent of Little Rollo. but the things he writes about are not Rollo-esque. If a ...